Defining Private Cloud Delivery

Grazed from ChannelPartnersOnline. Author: Carl Meadows.

Many channel partners see cloud solutions as a threat to their hardware sales, but in the case of private clouds, they can be a boon. Whether an enterprise establishes its own private cloud or retains a private cloud hosting provider, the partner can still sell the cloud hardware and, with the latter, the partner also can resell cloud hosting services.

Indeed, channel partners should be happy if their customers use either a combination of cloud and traditional solutions — a hybrid environment. Why? Because all signals point to a huge increase in spending for private cloud computing by businesses and organizations over the next few years…

Let’s make sure we’re on the same wavelength. First, many organizations use the "public" cloud computing model, often for test and development purposes. A service provider furnishes the compute, storage, hardware and bandwidth costs to many customers and the customer manages and provisions services on their own. It’s easy and inexpensive to set up and a company pays for what it uses so no resources are wasted. Amazon Web Services, IBM’s Blue Cloud, Good AppEngine and Windows Azure Services Platform are all examples of public clouds…

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